Means for securing caps on vessels.



No. 746.331. PATENTED DEU- 8, 1903.

J. M. HICKS. MEANS FOR SECURING CAPS 0N VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

No.7d6,3f31. l 1 v I v Patented December 8,1903. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. HICKS, OF SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF HORSESHOE, NEW YORK.

MEANS FOR SECURING CAPS ON VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,331, dated. December 8, 1903.

Application filed July 3,1903- Serial No. 164,203. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern: in the circumference of said flange b to de- Be it known that I, JAMES M. HICKS, a citistroy this spring action, as is the case with zen of the United States of America, residing caps haying a continnously-orimped flange at Summit,-county of Union, State of New andin common use. The tool for removing 5 Jersey, have invented certain new and useful thecapis similar to those used for crimped Improvements in Means for Securing Caps on caps, pressing downward on one side of the Vessels, of which the following is a specificatop of the cap and lifting the under side of tion. the flange b, which action easily removes the Myinvention relates to means for securing cap; but no pressure from within the bottle 10 the sealing-caps on vessels, especially on botacting vertically can remove the cap.

tles which are to contain liquids under great I have applied this my invention to a form pressure, such as soda-water, lager-beer, and of cap having an opening in its top, through I other liquids of this class, including ohamwhich a cork stopper is inserted, to be sealed pagne. by internal pressure outward; but the inven- 15 In order that those skilled in the art to tion is applicable to other kinds of caps where which my invention appertains may underthe bottle is filled and then sealed by forcing stand, construct, and use myinvention, I will the cap onto a thin pjecgpf ork logptedf proceed to describe it, referring to the accom-' with'iiftlie'dap: 'Ifhis is accomplished by companying drawings, in which I pressing tneenrk more than needed and al- 20 Figure 1 is an outside view of a bottle with lowing it to recede again, if necessary, after my cap fixed to it, showing a cork stopper the indents have snapped under the shoulder being inserted. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitnbefore indicated. dinal central section of a bottle with the cap Having now fully described my invention applied and a cork stopper in the neck. Fig. and the manner in which I have embodied it,

2 5 3 is a bottom view of the cap on the neck of what Iclaim as new and as my invention, and

the bottle, the section being taken just nndesire to secure by Letters Patent, is der the bead B, the neck of the bottle being The combination in a means for securing in cross-section. Fig. 4 is a perspective view caps on vessels, consisting of a cap having a of the cap reversed. top surface; apendent circumferential flange,

0 a isthe downwardly-inclined top surface provided with indents separated from each of the central part of the cap surrounding an other by spaces sufficient toform springs; a opening in it through which the cork stopper vessel having a neck, a bead located upon the is forced in sealing the bottle. top of the outside of the vessel-neck and form- A is the body of the bottle. ing a shoulder beneath said bead, whereby 35 O is the cap, havinga circular flangebpendthe said indents in said flange when the cap ent from the top surface of the cap. is placed over the vessel-mouth, spring dia- B is a bead on the top of the outside of the metrically outward, in pressing the cap downbottle-neck, forming a shoulder beneath it, ward, and close under the shoulder beneath 0 so that when the cap is placed on the mouth said bead on the vessel-neck, 'and retain the 0 of the bottle the indents 0 (see Fig. 2) take said cap against the pressure of the contents under said shoulder and prevent the cap from of the vessel, and in opening the vessel-mouth being removed except by forceexerted sidesaid indents are forced outward, to release wise by a tool made for the purpose. There their hold from under said shoulder,'snbstan- 5 are three or more of these indents made in tially as hereinbefore specified.

5 the circumference of flange b. I prefer three In testimony whereof I have signed my as being sufficient for the purpose. In placname tothis specification, in the presence of ing the said cap on the bottle pressure is two subscribing witnesses, this 27th 'day of brought to bear upon the top of the cap and May, 1903. the indents 0 spring outward and snap under 1 JAMES M. HICKS.

50 the said shoulder. As the flange b is circu- Witnesses:

' lar, it serves as a spring from one indent to NATHANIEL P. BARR,

another. There must not be indents enough FREDK. W. FIELDING. 

